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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-14
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Oscar W. de has grown fat and is a
tranger to estheticism.

Oscar W. de has grown fat and lisa
tranger to estheticism.
President Washington made a.
point of dining on Goldfish every Satur-
day.
Lieutenant C. N. Clinch, by the
will of Mrs. A. I. Stewart, becomes the
richest officer in the army.
Colonel Sir Reginald Ransom, the
new Lord Mayor of London, used to
be the best football player at Rugby.
Rosa Bonheur is in Nice, and has
bought two lions to serve as models
for painting ordered by an Ameri-
can.
Oakley Hall, formerly mayor of
New York, has become naturalized
English subject. He says he never ex-
poets to see America again. ~ T.
Mail.
Mrs. John Davis, daughter of the
late Secretary of State Frelinghuysen
and well known in Washington social
circles, has become hopeless para
lytic.
-Osgood Bradbury, who died in New
Gloucester, Me-, few days ago, aged
ninety years, was born in the town
where he died. His dying words were;
Hold me; Tn falling"
Maud Smith was a Nashville girl
who studied opera and is now on the
lyric stage, but not as Maud Smith. Oh
no! Her stage name is Silva Dolaro,
and it should earn her many.
Hiram p. Revels, the first colored
man elected to the United States Sem
ate, is now wel-to-do farmer in Mis-
sissippi There have been two negro
Senators and thirteen representatives.
The Boston Budget notes as sim
gular fact that two of the biggest men
in that city, physically and intellectual
ly, Rev. Phillips Brooks and Judge
Horace Gray, remain obstinate bachel-
ors.
1t is said that Richard H. Dana,
Jr, received only $3.50 for the manG-
script of 1.-TWO Years Before the Mas"
The publisher Melted over $4,000 but
Dana never received any thing from
him beyond the sum promised.
General Horace Porter said the
other night that no description of a
woman could be happier and juster
than that famous one: "Corporeal
enough to attest her humanity, yet so
transparent that the Divine light
shines through
When Lincoln ran for Congress,
says the Century Mdgazine, some of the
Wings contributed purse of 5000 to
pay his personal expenses in the can
vass. After election was over the sue
cessful candidate handed back $l99. 25
81 did not need it., he said. 81 made
the canvass on my own horse; my
entertainment, being at the houses of
friends, cost me nothing, and my only
outlay was seventy-fve cents for a
barrel of cider which some farm hands
insisted 1 should treat them to-"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-14
when he brushes the geranium leaf into

when ne brushes the geranium leaf into
the hand of dead Evelyn Hope"
| went into the church of the Capuch-
ins that afternoon also, where l found
the little "Improvisatore" or his "dou-
BILE" again. 1t was about four O'Clock
and was already growing dark in the
church when little boy, who could not
have been more than six years old,
came in. He had his little sachel
strapped to his shoulders and was evil
IDENTIFY on his way from school. mo
ticed his beautiful pale face and fine
cut features as he pushed away the
heavy leather door and entered the
church. Besides, we were almost alone
in the great church, except the old
woman who watches for her sous
by pushing back the heavy porter
and if there chance to be no priest at
hand. by guiding stranger to some
chapel or picture inquired for, and
an old gray-headed man, who had been
kneeling before the Madonna, absorbed
in prayer ever since | entered. The
little pale boy walked up into the mid
die of the church, placed his chair fol
kneeling directly before the Madonna
back of the high alter, dropped upon
his knees, and, covering his face with
both hands, seemed as entirely lost in
prayer as the old man had been. In
his pale face, his evident deep feeling
and his appeal to the Madonna read
as plain as words could have told il
the story of motherless boy on his
way to his home where he would not
find her, and had stopped to get com.
fort from the good Madonna to whom
every Italian child learns to appeal as
familiarly and with the same conf,
dence as to his mother.
On one of these days saw in St.
Peters pilgrim of the olden times. !
was told he had come from Spain-all
the way in the guise in which he was
then. He was a very handsome young
man of fine-cut features, that really
denotes noble, and | observed that
his hands as he clasped his book (for ]
stood very near him) were very deli
cately formed, and could never have
been used to manual labor. His dress
was goat-skin, and his feet entirely
bare, not having on even the
sandals the barefooted friars wear
He had his pilgrims staff with Il
crucifix at the end of it, and the
small gourd for dipping water from
the brooks or streams he was passing,
as his needs might be. He had also a
little sack, quite similar to those oul
post-men carry, strapped to his shout.
der. Going from chapel to chapel in
the church, he knelt before the altar,
sometimes for long time, seeming en-
tirely unmindful of the people and
wholly absorbed in prayer. There was
no expression of cant in his face or
manner, but true devotion. He might
have passed for one of the pictures OF
st. Francis in the churches, and he
seemed like figure stepping out of one
of the pictures of scenes of the middle
ages more than any thing | have yet
seen in Rome.-L. II. s., in Detroi
| Tribune
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-14
EVENLY BALANCED,

She Is beautiful, she's charming, but she don't
know, wien she sees,
The transcendental, philosophic baked beans
OF the Bostonese.
Her attitudinosity is such as is adored,
But you never saw her posing DER the family
washing board
All. In her pianosthetics she can show her
fingers def,
But betting on her sewing you would certainly
get left;
And her conversationality astonlshes her sex.
But then its grammarology Is likely to perplex.
She's familiar with the operas vet she doesn't
seem to know
That the music of the household has its start
ing point on dough;
In the ball rooms strict devotions she is ALWAYS
quite severe
Her devotions of a Sunday-well, perhaps the
angels hear.
Proudly doth she WELD the scepter in the
bright and gilded room,
But at home it's not synonymous with busting
brush or broom;
Sill the man she matrimonializes needn't sit
and groan,
For she's income-parable with twenty thousand
dollars Of her own.
"A. W. Beliato, In Detroit Free Press,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There is not one female missionary
to quarter of million women for
those countries in which they alone can
carry the gospel to the secluded VIC
tins, chiefly by the tedious process of
visits to the homes.-MiSSionary Re-
Utet0.
Students are not averse to catching
a Professor in an error Prof Thom-
son, of Cambridge, hit his class very
neatly when he observed some of them
smiling at a slight inadvertence of his
own. Gentlemen, said he, ''let us
remember that we are none of us infal-
lible-not even the youngest of us. -
N. Y Ledger
The railroad branch of the Young
Mems Christian Association, which in
1875 had but four rooms in the United
States, has now footing at sixty-six
railroad points. Fifty-eight have read
ing rooms and tifty-four employ gen.
eral secretary, forty-six have libraries,
and twenty-one provide instruction in
the common branches of education.
During the winter of 1886 there
were IA, 633 students in the universities
of Italy, of whom 1894 were at NAPLES,
2.073 at Turin, 1,216 at Rome, 1,l63 at
Bologna, 1,009 at Padua and 1,005 at
Pavia. The other universities had less
than 1000 students each, and at Fer
rara there were but 80. Of the total
number 5,195 were students of medi-
cine.
Willard Asylum, now the largest
organized institution for the insane in
the United States, has taken another
step in advance by the organization OF
school for the purpose of training the
attendants to the intelligent perform
ance of their duties. The course of in.
struction will extend to two years
There are now forty persons in the
CLASSY. Y. Times.
There are five million Indians Of
Mexico, making thirty-fve per cent. Of
the entire population. They speak
thirty-five idioms and sixty-nine dia
lects. They are nearly all ignorant
and live by themselves, wild, half
savage life, in the country districts
Governor Jose Marie Ramirez, of CHA
pas will ask the President to appro
pirate one million dollars to educat
these Indians.
1t has been noticed in the publ
manual training classes of the Boston
schools that the children of the wealth,
and those of the poor derive the mos
benefit from the instruction, and pei
form their task in carpentry with tn
greatest eagerness. The children c
the rich are pleased with the novelt
of the tools, and those of the poor AZ
excited to ambition for the sake of fl
ture gain, and come by inheritance t
a certain aptness in tools. The childre
of the middle class seem to take les
: interest in the subject of manual train
mo
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-14
THE INDIAN WAY.
Carriers Quaint Description of the Tobac.
co-Smoking Red Man.

Carriers Quaint Description of the Tobac.
co-Smoking Red Man.
OF all the customs of the Indians
which Jacques Cartier observed, that
which struck him as the most novel and
singular was the use of tobacco. In
the narrative of his second voyage to
Canada, in 1885, occurs the following
quaint description: 1.-The Indians have
an herb of which, during the summer,
they gather great quantity for the
winter, and which they prize very
highly, and use (the men only in the
following manner: They dry it in the
sun and suspend it from their necks,
tied up in little skin instead of bag,
together with horn [cornet] of stone
or wood. Then. at all hours, they
make powder of the said herb and
put it in one end of the horn, and then
place a live coal upon it; and through
the other end they blow so hard that
their body is filled with smoke. so
much that it comes out of their mouth
and nostrils as out of a chimney. They
say that this keeps them healthy and
warm, and they never go about without
these things We have tried the said
smoke. and having had it in our mouth
it seemed to contain pepper, so great
was the heat" At that time the use of
tobacco was unknown in France, and,
although the plant had been brought to
Spain and Portugal by the early ex-
plorers of America, it was only quar-
ter of a century after Jacques Cartier s
second voyage that the French Embas-
sador. Jean Moot. sent the seed from
Lisbon and France,-ChtcdgO Iste'
Ocedp
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-14
New German Ammunition.

An English paper gives an account
of new ammunition which is being
adopted by the German army, and
which is about to be manufactured
under British patent at Millwall. The
bullet is partly of lead and partly of
steel, and is said to have great pene-
trative power, and it is urged from the
barrel by compressed powder. The
new cartridge will keep for any length
of time without deterioration and with
safety, for the explosive portion need
not be attached to them until they are
required for use.-N. Y Star.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-14

The Indian Conference of the Meth.
odist Episcopal Church South, reports
1850 Indian church members.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-04-14

The Reformed Church of France,
the lineal descendent of the Huguenots,
has $50 ministers and about 600, 900
members. and the free churches of
France have large membership,
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-03-26
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINas.

Cardinal Gibbons took possession of his
titular church in Rome yesterday.
The First National bank of Russell, Kan,
has been authorized to commence business
with capital of $50, 900.
Mrs. Ann Wright, mother of George and
Harry Wright, is dead at her home in Dor
chester, Mass, aged rs.
Albert B. Wight & Co., carriage materials,
No. 10 Commercial Wharf, Boston, have as
signed; liabilities S13, 900. assets 81, 900.
The Wilson Boiler company, New York
and Westfeld, N. Y, is in the hands of the
sheriff on executions for Sc, 527.
Hon. John Sherman arrived in Cincinnati
last night from Nashville. He will leave to-
day for his home in Mansfield, o.
f. Charles E. Sellen, marine editor of the
Boston Daily Advertiser for nearly twenty
years past, died yesterday morning of paraly-
sis, aged ffty-one..
Albert Borden, postmaster at Canning,
Novia Scotia, was burned to death in his
house yesterday morning. His wife and family
are on visit to Boston.
A statement prepared at the pension Office
shows that there are now pending before that
office awaiting examination 2S7, 1877 applica-
tions for pensions. Claims are presented at
the rate of about 5000 week and an
average of 2, 500 a week are finally adjudi-
Gated.
The schooner Stony Brook, which went
ashore near Sandwich, Mass, cannot be
reached with assistance owing to the heavy
sea. Her crew rowed to Hog Island and are
there safe. The schooner was loaded with
| sand and was from Onset for Connecticut
| She is likely 20 go to pieces.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-03-26
CLASS OF "a, III. III. 8.
TrfenniaI Reunion Held Last Nigh

TrfenniaI Reunion Held Last Night
A Large Gathering-A Jolly Time.
There was large gathering last night of
the members of the class of 'S4 of the Hill
house High school, at the restaurant known
as Barkentin's, but now run by NJ. F. Sharp
of Bristol. About forty were present,
among them being many of the young ladies
whose schooldays closed there years ago,
while others have still pursued their studies.
The whole affair was very successful.
The committee ON arrangements was COM
posed of Philip Pond and Frank B. Tibbals.
The menu was delicious and was prepared
by David Felio formerly with Barkentin.
The following were the toasts of the evening:
Alma Mater Alma Mater, Heavens blessings
attend thee,
While we live we will cherish protect and de-
fend thee
The class of 'S4. w. G. Bushnell
Tone Of the few, the ii IMMORTAL I'm names
H. H. S. a Miss d. Gertie Hall
$50 near and yet SO far
What shall we do with our girls?
Aye! there's the rub:-Shakespeare.
o wad some power the giftie gle them
To see themselves as ithers see them
with class cup presentation)
Don't view me with critics eye
o,u Blu But pass my imperfections by r,,,.,s
Kent we:'
Virtue anbire oportet.''
During the evening elegant loving cup
was presented by the class to James Henry
Chatfeld. The cup is of silver, with the in
side of gold, and was specially designed
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-03-26
MUSCLE AND SKILL.
The New Haven Athletic Club Civ,
Another Enjoyable Exhtbitfon-Somt
EXcelIent Rerfnr,~ uoa~

The New Haven Athletic Club Give
Another Enjoyable OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Excellent Performances,
The New Haven Athletic club served an
other of their interesting and scientific exhi-
billions last evening. At the opening Mr.. q.
G. Marlin, son of Mr. Marlin of the Firearms
company, made very pleasant and appro-
pirate speech thanking the friends of the
club for their generous patronage To emu
merate the many skillful performances space
forbids. The horizontal bar performing by
the class under Professor Tefchert was done
with skill which showed good training and
more than ordinary ability. Messrs. Wood
and Barnes gave some excellent perform
ances. The club swinging by Messrs Brown
and Spiess was very fine and showed much
practice and skill. Mr.. Joseph W. Craig also
gave very fine exhibition of club swinging.
Prot- Teichert gave some line exhibitions on
the horizontal bar, long horse, side horse and
parallel bars. The gymnasium was nicely
decorated with flags of various colors. The
committee of arrangements deserve great
credit for the manner in which they per-
formed their arduous duties. The general
verdict of those present was that it was one
of the finest exhibitions they ever saw.
Probably there is not a finer set of young
athletes in the State than the members of the
New Haven Athletic club who performed
last night. The committee of arrangements
is as follows: H. G. Ward, S. R. Spices, J.
c. Crabb, T. G. Crabb, treasurer; W. H.
Brown, jr.
Among those present were: Mr.. Joseph
Monson, Frank E. Stoneman, G. II. Scran-
ton, Fl. P. Bradley, H. R. Anderson, Presi-
dent Sargent, w. H. Beeeher, George n.
Tuttle of the firm of Tuttle, .Morehouse &
Taylor, w. H. Brown and wife, President
J. E. Heaton, Mr.. Prindle of the firm of
Leigh & Prindle, II. H. Peck, J. Il. Taylor,
w. H. Moseley and wife, Captain Ward,
John Bristol, George c. Phelps, the Misses
Sargent, Miss Alice Chapman, William H.
johnson, Mrs. Moore of New York, the
Misses White, Mrs. Halliday and Miss Camp.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-03-26
RAND, BUSTER AND THE BEAR
A short Hunting Story From wyo-
ming,

| ming.
| from the ST. Louis Globe Democrat
While in Wyoming territory last Novem-
| Der, John R. Rand, who resides near Sun.
| dance, engaged in cattle raising and farming
| related to your correspondent his exciting
adventure with bear. We had finished
supper, which had been prepared by Mrs.
Rand and her daughter, and were sitting
around cheerful FIRE of burning pitch pine,
when the old gentleman asked
tHave you heard of the struggle 1 had
with the big bear last week near that large
hill yonder, known as Cairo Mountain; Well,
I will have to commence way back to make
a tenderfoot understand. It is the custom
of the few settlers here to lay up their win
ter's provisions in the meat line in the fall,
which consist of deer, bear, antelope, noun
tain sheep, &c. When we kill anything we
take out the entrails and hang the carcass
on tree, and on the homeward journey
gather it up. Well, started out last week
to kill some deer afoot, as it was too rough
to go any other way. After a while I came
upon the black tails, shot one of them, took
out its entrails, hung up the carcass and
started for another. l travelled some dis
lance, but becoming tired and disguised,
concluded to return, get my deer and pro
coed home. L knew the lay of the land and
did not worry much as to the safety of my
deer. Suddenly, however, my dog Buster
became frightened and unruly. and looking
up I observed a bear of monstrous size look
ing me straight in the eye. I tried to be
cool under the circumstances, and endeav-
ored to keep Buster back in order to deter
mine on the best mode of attack. Buster,
however, had an idea of his own and COM
menced the battle at once. The dog made a
bound for bruin, clnched and over they
went. Buster being in q critical condition, I
first thought of shooting, but I knew that
would be useless, if not dangerous, to any
one with an old fashioned rife. I next
thought of hitting the bear blow over the
head with my gun, but thinking that might
bend my gun barrel, I concluded to punch
the bear behind, thinking that might per-
suade bruin to loosen his grip on poor Bus
ter and give the dog better show. Instead
of the bear doing l expected, the brute
attacked me and Immediately skedaddled.
Up the hill ran, the bear after me and Bus
ter close on the heels of bruin. The bear
should say chased me at the rate of fifteen
miles an hour for about quarter of mile.
1 was soon almost exhausted and 1 could
feel the bears breath close to my body every
jump. But Buster, being a very cute dog,
and seeing my critical position, made a
strong effort to draw the bears attention the
other way and seized bruin by the hind leg
The excited brute Immediately turned on
Buster which gave me the desired opportu-
nifty, and 1 sent bullet crashing through
hruin's brain -
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-03-26
CLAIMANTS HEARD.


Meeting of the Committee ON Claims
Last Night.
The committee claims met in the AL
dermanic chamber last night with Hugh
Daley as chairman. The claim of Mrs.
Mary A. Wells of SIC Chapel street for $500
damages for injuries sustained by falling ON
the sidewalk on February Is last and frac-
turing her wrist heard. Mrs. Wells
claims that about 10 O'Clock on the night of
that day she was walking along in front OF
BIB Chapel street, opposite Wooster Place.
She wore rubbers. The sidewalk was covered
with ice and she fell. Alderman Daley,
whose eye is as sharp as an eagles, asked her
if she had ever had any trouble with her
wrist previous to this fall. She said she had
having broken it in Bridgeport about four
years ago. She claimed, however, that since
her sec ond fall she had been unable to do
her homework. Several witnesses testified
for Mrs. Wells.
The committee took no action on the
claim, but continued it, as they also did with
the claim of Edward Lawrence for $685. IL
for damage done to his carriage on the rail-
road bridge at Olive street by runaway.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-03-26

ATHoL, Mass, March 25.-The slaughter
and ice houses of Wood & Woodbury. near
Silver Lake cemetery were burned last night
with large quantity of lard and salt pork
and three tons of tallow. The loss is about
$1,000.
GARDINER, Mass, March 26-The chair
shop occupied by Whitney & Firmir at East
Templeton was burned last night. The
building was owned by A. 81. Parker of
Gardiner. His loss is covered by $14, 900
insurance. Whitney & Firmir's loss ia
50 5000, uninsured cause unknown.
BINGHAMToN, N. Y, March 25.-W. S.
Weed & Co.'s planning mill with large guam
tity of timber in the adjacent yards was
burned tonight. A high wind prevailed at
the time the fire broke out. Two alarms
were sounded, but it seemed impossible to
prevent the flames from spreading. King
man & Sturtevants cutter factory caught
fire and the hremen divided their efforts be-
tween keeping this structure from being de-
stroyed and preventing the flames from COM
municating with the hotel and twenty cot
tages. The loss Weed & Co. is about
500, 600.
SALEM, Mass, March 25.-The old round
house of the Boston and Maine railroad at
North River Basin and four old locomotives
were burned to- night. Loss on locomotives
and other contents $25, 900; on building
Sc, 900.
NEW York, March 25-During fire this
evening in the frame building No. 346 West
Sixteenth street James Hall, colored, was
| burned to death.